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A review by kilcannon
Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
4.0
I had four stars worth of fun reading this, but it has enough thematic and story problems that I should really give it less.
The female characters are treated pretty shoddily (by the author, I'd say, moreso even than Jack Barron), and good ol' Jack is waaaaay too slow on the uptake in figuring out things that are obvious to the reader as soon as they come up.
But the language is a riot, the rough racial content is for good ends, and it's a good moral outrage romp in a "Network" kind of way.
Plus I always enjoy outdated futurism.
The female characters are treated pretty shoddily (by the author, I'd say, moreso even than Jack Barron), and good ol' Jack is waaaaay too slow on the uptake in figuring out things that are obvious to the reader as soon as they come up.
But the language is a riot, the rough racial content is for good ends, and it's a good moral outrage romp in a "Network" kind of way.
Plus I always enjoy outdated futurism.